{"id":139,"date":"2008-03-29T14:26:26","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T21:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=139"},"modified":"2009-03-29T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T20:08:12","slug":"on-the-road-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/on-the-road-again\/","title":{"rendered":"On the road again&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I actually took 2 shorter rides last week, but this was the first of any distance. After fixing the heated grips I rode the long way to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=musselman+lake,+ontario&#038;sll=43.70723,-79.398499&#038;sspn=0.010904,0.019634&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;z=16\">Musselman Lake<\/a>, making a loop past <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&#038;q=245+Humber+College+Blvd,+Etobicoke,+Toronto,+Ontario+M9W,+Canada&#038;sll=44.030365,-79.273145&#038;sspn=0.010846,0.019634&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;cd=1&#038;geocode=0,43.732138,-79.609367&#038;z=16\">Humber College<\/a> to make sure I knew how to get to my course next weekend. There were 2 full parking lots full of motorcycles at Humber: probably the first weekend they&#8217;re teaching the M1-exit course this year.<\/p>\n<p><center>            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 256px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/n701895367_2565124_1144.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"First longer ride in 2008: Saturday March 29th: Musselman Lake: a bit NE of Toronto: http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=139\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/n701895367_2565124_1144.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/thumbs\/thumbs_n701895367_2565124_1144.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"4\"\n             data-title=\"n701895367_2565124_1144.jpg\"\n             data-description=\"First longer ride in 2008: Saturday March 29th: Musselman Lake: a bit NE of Toronto: http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=139\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_a0c7f687a555522ffc6e17b7ba5e5781\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/motorcycles\/cache\/n701895367_2565124_1144.jpg-nggid014-ngg0dyn-0x192x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"n701895367_2565124_1144.jpg\"\n             title=\"n701895367_2565124_1144.jpg\"\n              width=\"256\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center><\/p>\n<p>I wore thinner &#8220;summer&#8221; riding gloves, after reading they would let the heat of the grips through to my hands better&#8230; this worked around town but at sustained highway speed my hands eventually got cold anyways (unless I messed up the hi\/low settings of the grips). Still, it was only about 1-2 degrees out, and it was nice to have warm hands at city speeds. It also makes me wonder how nice a heated vest would be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I actually took 2 shorter rides last week, but this was the first of any distance. After fixing the heated grips I rode the long way to Musselman Lake, making a loop past Humber College to make sure I knew <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/on-the-road-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  On the road again&#8230;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-2f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}